Latest hotspots and 'notspots' as Covid infections fall further across Greater Manchester

Covid-19 infection rates have sunk further across Greater Manchester ahead of the lifting of pandemic measures.

A total of 7,612 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on February 16.

In the region as a whole, the infection rate is now 268.4 cases per 100,000 people, which is significantly lower than the England average rate of 456.5.

Meanwhile a total of 41 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test across Greater Manchester, which is 23 fewer than the week before.

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All pandemic rules are expected to be imminently revoked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson under long terms plans for how the country will live with the virus going forward.

But he said they are ‘certainly not asking people to throw caution to the wind’, adding Covid-19 remains a ‘dangerous disease’.

Elderly and vulnerable people will be offered another booster jab by the government, following recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

However the move to end self-isolation requirements for positive Covid cases has been criticised by experts.

Local coronavirus ‘hotspots’ and ‘notspots’ can be revealed via an interactive map charting the number of positive Covid-19 test results in each neighbourhood across the country using government data.

It shows the number of infections per local area, broken down into neighbourhoods containing roughly 7,000 people.

The number of new cases is then used to calculate the infection rate per 100,000 people.

According to the latest local data, the top ten local infection hotspots for the virus are spread across Manchester, Trafford , Wigan, Oldham and Stockport.

In the week to February 15 the latest hyperlocal data shows